Automobile bomb kills one, hurts almost 30 in southern Thailand: Police official

BANGKOK: At the very least one particular person was killed when a automotive bomb exploded inside a police compound in southern Thailand on Tuesday (Nov 22), a police official mentioned.

“It was a automotive bomb. We’re nonetheless clearing the realm and the variety of injured might enhance,” mentioned Lieutenant Colonel Niti Suksan, deputy police commissioner of Narathiwat province, including that one police officer was killed.

At the very least 29 folks have been handled at hospital for accidents, amongst them law enforcement officials and civilians, mentioned Pornprasit Jantra, director of the Narathiwat Rajanagarindra hospital.

Nobody has claimed duty for the assault to date.

Photos on social media confirmed black smoke billowing from a automotive on hearth inside a low-rise compound and police diverting visitors away. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the pictures.

Provinces in southern Thailand alongside the border with Malaysia have seen a decades-long, low-level insurgency, through which the Thai authorities has battled shadowy teams looking for independence for the predominantly Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and elements of Songkhla.

Explosions and fires ripped via not less than 17 places in southern Thailand in August, in what seemed to be a number of coordinated assaults that injured seven folks.

Greater than 7,300 folks have been killed within the battle since 2004, based on the Deep South Watch group, which screens the violence. Peace talks that started in 2013 have confronted repeated disruptions.